147 Pubs and Bars found in or around Old Street

If you've been trawling through fancyapint? looking for a bike repair shop you've been making a grave error of judgement, until now perhaps. Look Mum No Hands combines this with a cafe and bar, hence its rightful inclusion. The...

Out of hours, people might feel sorry for the Griffin because it looks so lonely and run down, standing forlornly on the corner of a largely barren plot in an otherwise built-up area. But they needn't worry - when it's open...

Amongst the sea of Hoxton bars, the casual observer might miss the Strongroom bar, tucked away down an ivy covered alley. Associated with the recording studios next door, the owners are trying to make this different from the...

A mainstay of the Old Street drinking scene for a number of years, the Reliance is popular throughout the week with the after work crowd, with Friday and Saturday nights bringing even more punters through the doors. This pub is...

Set in the middle of Finsbury Square, next to a tranquil bowling green, lies a slightly chaotic, ramshackle bar and restaurant called La Paquerette. Plans have been afoot for years to revamp this space, most likely to the...

The pubs and bars featured in Fancyapint? are always judged on their own merits. That's why it pays to look at Bluu's motion sickness-inducing web site after, rather than before, visiting the venue itself. Bluu's site describes...

Aggressive bag searches in the quest for illicit alcohol is never going to endear a reviewer to a bar. Necessary at International Airports, in a pub filled with harmless Hoxtonites at 7pm on a Friday night, it was rather sad....

This is another Shoreditch fixture we've often visited before, but never got around to reviewing. In truth, we never really liked the place, it was always very, very full of the kind of people whose company we could easily live...

A pleasant surprise, the Electricity Showrooms. We seem to remember a previous incarnation which was all black leather furnishings and cubed seats - well, there's been a refit which has turned the place back into (yikes!) a...